I'm on Voyager... it's definitely better than I expected, and better than Of Nightmares. I'm going to give it time, but yeah it potentially is more fun to listen to than Dream Walker, I wouldn't necessarily say better though.

I think Ilan mostly did drums on this release, seems more Tom than anything else. although the bass on voyager sounds very ilanesque, I can't imagine Tom writing that bass line.

This isn't sticking for me at all with the heavy exception of Overload.

Overload might be a top 5 Tom song for me. It would have been an amazing blink song with Mark harmonizing those lyrics and getting rid of the "I lie lie lie lie" or whatever that BS pre chorus is. Guitar sounds so blinky.

Yeah this EP is, like Kay said, pretty dang fun.I really like the first three songs - the eponymous track is kinda saturated with AVA staples so I'm not 100% on board.Really dig the cursing in "Voyager" - Tom will never undersell a "fuck".

Elevator wrote:I really like the chorus of Chasing Shadows. He could never, EVER perform it live, but it sounds good. Very 80s. The guy is way too obsessed with U2, lol. Overload's good. Not big on the other two.

i would love to have been a fly on the wall in his studio the day he was tracking vocals for that chorus

the EP is ok... tom is as close as he's ever been with his U2 impression, so I guess he's succeeding? ironically the only song that really stuck with me melodically was the last one, which was the most U2 of the four.

i think a lot of the musical ideas in the other tracks were really underdeveloped and lacked cohesion. what made Dream Walker a good album in my eyes is that most of the songs felt fleshed out, distinct and memorable, each with its own (successful) musical ideas. in this EP the first track starts with an interesting sampled percussion loop and synth patch, then we don't hear from it again. I felt like the last song was the only one with a clear vision that was executed well.

This was my girlfriend's first reaction. She isn't into blink/AVA so I thought it was interesting that she said that. I totally see it too. I also saw the 80's vine throughout Dreamwalker (i.e. Bullets in the Wind).